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Oreopithecus

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Oreopithecus , extinct genus of apes whose fossils have been found in E Africa and Italy. It is best known through specimens preserved in coal deposits. It lived in swampy areas, was herbivorous, and had long arms. It has some similarities to later ancestors of humans, probably as a result of parallel evolution. Although related to predecessors of modern apes and humans, it is generally classed in a family by itself. ... Read more

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An upstanding ape.(bipedal ape Oreopithecus bambolii)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Discover; 2/1/1998; 400 words ; ...with another bipedal animal. The ape, Oreopithecus bambolii, is not in the hominid family...typical of bipeds, the three-foot-tall Oreopithecus had an unusual foot for an ape. It...primates that occasionally walk upright, Oreopithecus seems to have been fully bipedal. However... Read more
Ancient ape shuffles to prominence. (oreopithecus bambolii)
Magazine article from: Science News; 10/18/1997; ; 487 words ; ...ancient Mediterranean creature, known as Oreopithecus bambolii, should help to clarify how...stance] did not evolve only in hominids. Oreopithecus fossils have been excavated for more...ago, a few researchers suggested that Oreopithecus possessed skeletal features consistent... Read more
Fossil ape's grasp gets two thumbs way up.(fossil ape has opposing thumbs)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Science News; 1/9/1999; ; 421 words ; ...Mediterranean island. The animal, known as Oreopithecus bambolii, boasted an opposable thumb...scientists suggest. Moya-Sola's team studied Oreopithecus fossils previously found at an Italian...right hand. Several features of the Oreopithecus hand signify the presence of a thumb-assist... Read more
El simio que caminó tres millones de años antes que el hombre. (paleontólogos catalanes hacen hallazgo que cambiará las teorías tradicionales; incluye artículo relacionado)(TT: The ape that walked three million years before man) (TA: Catalan paleontologists make discovery that will change the traditional theories; includes related article)
Magazine article from: Tribuna de Actualidad; 10/27/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...conocido científicamente como Oreopithecus. Comía principalmente vegetales...dos años de trabajos que este Oreopithecus caminaba. Se trata, pues, del bí...grupo filogenético estrecho. El Oreopithecus pertenece a esta serie. Sin embargo... Read more
Fossil finds diversify ancient apes.
Magazine article from: Science News; 11/22/1986; ; 700+ words ; ...related to a European hominoid known as Oreopithecus. Harrison discusses new 17-million-year-old Oreopithecus specimens in the December AMERICAN...and European apes. The ancestry of Oreopithecus appears to be from east Africa, notes... Read more
AFRICAN CROCODYLIANS IN THE LATE NEOGENE OF EUROPE: A REVISION OF CROCODYLUS BAMBOLII RISTORI, 1890
Magazine article from: Journal of Paleontology; 3/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Paleogene. Revision of the type material of Crocodylus bambolii Ristori, 1890, a Tortonian crocodylian from the renowned Oreopithecus localities in central Italy, excludes it from Diplocynodon. The morphology of the remains, combined with chronology and biogeography... Read more
Phylogeny of the Neogene hominoid primates of Eurasia. (Book Reviews: Human evolution).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; 9/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...their analysis of potential heterochrony in the cranium of Oreopithecus offers insight into the phylogenetic position of this European...on the hominoid family tree; indeed, their contention that Oreopithecus is a pongid (sensu stricto) is entirely cladistic, although... Read more
Reassessing hominoid phylogeny: evaluating congruence in the morphological and temporal data
Magazine article from: Paleobiology; 10/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...of taxa. The relative position of the late-appearing taxon Oreopithecus is also altered in the stratocladistic hypothesis. Topological...preservation conditions associated with the late Miocene hominoid Oreopithecus. Introduction Despite a considerable research effort to refine... Read more
Italy Discovers Ancient Monkey With Human Dexterity
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire; 1/4/1999; 183 words ; ...philosophy of science. For the past three years, he and two Spanish colleagues have studied the fossilized bones of the hand of an Oreopithecus Bambolii, a monkey which stood a meter and 10 centimeters tall and weighed around 30 kilos. The bones were discovered in... Read more

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